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Currently, 446 private art museums exist worldwide, established by art collectors to open their collections to the public. The vast majority of these museums have been established in the 21st century, revealing a number of key economic, societal, and cultural inequalities. For exemple, they reflect sharply rising income and wealth inequality in many countries across the globe. The museums are also indicative of ongoing gender inequality within the art world. Also, the private museum boom makes ongoing geographic inequalities within the art world visible, in particular between the global north and the global south. The report demonstrates that these museums can be seen as generous philanthropic gestures of their founders; after all they make precious private collections accessible to the public. To keep the museums open usually requires either ongoing financial contributions of their founders, or the establishment of a large endowment.

The arts and entertainment sector has both cultural and economic dimensions. It creates experiences, rather than just goods. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged discussion of the broader culture as representing, in some instances, a “global public good”, through its capacity to promote social cohesion, increase people’s resilience and connect communities to different forms of cultural expression, in addition to its commercial value. This report will focus on full and productive employment and decent work for workers and enterprises that produce specific goods and deliver services, in particular on the arts and entertainment side of the cultural and creative ecosystem, including the performing arts; music; dance; both live and recorded performance (sound or audiovisual); the visual arts; books; and gaming and animation.

The economic turbulence experienced in recent years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the importance of obtaining complementary sources to official statistics for monitoring variables of socio-economic interest such as employment in real time. The need to obtain accurate and timely data is more important for domains such as the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), which have been highly affected by the social distancing rules introduced as a response to outspread of the pandemic. At the same time, the rise of the digital economy and the increasingly popular use of job posting platforms offer new and potentially very valuable sources of alternative data to monitor the labour market in real time. This technical report investigates the statistical and distributional features of online job posting data on cultural occupations in EU countries.

Biennial survey that collects and analyses statistical, sociological and economic data on the European Architects, the architectural market, the architectural practices and country profiles.

This report looks into the experiences of communities in the music industry and how gender-based discrimination impacts them. Women and gender expansive individuals report enduring a plethora of issues in
today’s industry, from the safety of creators and the risk of sexual harassment in their non-traditional working environments, to industry professionals being passed up for promotion to leadership roles in historically
patriarchal structures. The 2023 report explores the opinions and experiences of over 1,650 creators, industry professionals and executives from 109 countries.

Research for CULT Committee examines how cultural heritage can be better protected from the effects of armed conflicts, in Ukraine and beyond. It includes an analysis of the applicable international law and policy frameworks and the practice of key international actors in Ukraine, as well as in past conflicts. It concludes with a set of recommendations to the EU and is Member States to strengthen the protection of cultural heritage from the effects of armed conflicts, now and in the future.